The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra has announced that Cordula Merks, a violinist with the Seattle Symphony, has been appointed concertmaster for the S.F. Ballet.
When Orquesta Victoria comes to the Bay Area, June 23-27, the group will skip the tried-and-true presentation of the tango (dancers front, musicians in the back) and instead feature a 12-piece orchestra and, sparingly, two pairs of dancers.
The June 18 performance of the San Francisco Opera's production of Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) was dedicated to the memory of Sandra Bernhard, who died earlier the same day in a Houston hospice.
Google goes classical, the NBA Finals create a Twitter war between the Bay Area and Cleveland orchestras, and the S.F. Conservatory of Music's voice department gets new leadership.
